Richard Hamilton, the original pop artist, dies at 89

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/13/richard-hamilton-artist-dies

Richard Hamilton, the most influential British artist of the 20th century, has died aged 89. In his long, productive life he created the most important and enduring works of any British modern painter.

This may sound a surprising claim. We have our national icons and our pop celebrities. But neither Francis Bacon nor Lucian Freud nor Damien Hirst has shaped modern art in the way Hamilton did when he put a lolly with the word POP on it in the hand of a muscleman in his 1956 collage, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Hamilton has a serious claim to be the inventor of pop art: this collage is a visionary, and yet ironic, manifesto for a new art that would be at home in the modern world.

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1. Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

http://css.freetonik.com/wiki/_media/visual_art:showimagec6bdafkx8.jpg

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3. K & R. n/t

[hunter]

5. I so want a tape recorder with a hand crank...

:P

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Oh... *that* kind of artist.

I was thinking musician.

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4. ...

:spray: that was funny. i think he would have appreciated the confusion.